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Today I make 1 month post op. I have lost a total of 24lbs from day of surgery and two dress sizes. Yay! & i'm only 10 lbs away from onederland!!

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Today I make 1 month post op. I have lost a total of 24lbs from day of surgery and two dress sizes. Yay! & i'm only 10 lbs away from onederland!!

That's gr8 I am 5 weeks tomorrow and 7pounds away from Onederland

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Thanks for this post, Diamondeyed and thank you to everyone for sharing! Dr. Garcia is at the top of my list! :)

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Between preop and surgery on the 29 (this past Friday) I'm down 16 pounds. Love this team!

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Sleeved October 25th. Down 62 lbs

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Hi all.. I spend less and less time in the Mexico forum and more in the main forums now. I just posted my before and goal photos a couple of days ago in the "success" section. They should be in my profile too. I had surgery with Garcia about 11.5 monts ago and have lost 200 lbs. Great Doctor and great recovery. I must also add the disclaimer that I did not follow his post op diet. I need some rules and his was more of a everything in moderation plan. No regrets!

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Sleeve 10/09/13 starting weight 342, currently 240 :-)

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Sleeved November 15,2012 down to 200 best thing I have done. Only regret is should ate done this 5 years earlier in life. Thank you again to the entire team with F. Garcia

 

 

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I was sleeved 9 April..... im down 10 pounds but that is mostly Fluid I gained from iv and im sure theres a lot more in there as my tummy is still swollen. Also, I switched to Dr. Garcia less than a week before my surgery so I really only did 3 days pre op.

He is a good doctor and I loved Florence Hospital to. Good luck on your journey!

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Sleeved November 15' date='2012 down to 200 best thing I have done. Only regret is should ate done this 5 years earlier in life. Thank you again to the entire team with F. Garcia

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Hi.....if u dont mind sharing... i was just wondering what can u eat ? Im only 5 days out its a lil hard being on liquids and telling yourself that solids will come back eventually.

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I was sleeved a year ago on May 15...I've lost 130 pounds so far. It's a lot slower going now, but still slowly (very slowly) dropping. I now really have to watch what I eat, get my Protein, drink Water and exercise!

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I'm down 73 pounds since November 15 ,2012

 

I eat anything now steak chicken Pasta everything

When I came home from Mexico I did Jello and pudding for 2 weeks

After 14 days I started eating chicken in small portions and liquid

Breakfast and lunch I did 30 gram Protein Shakes and ate Protein chicken shrimp white fish for supper

I have eliminated all pop alcohol and wasted calorie food out of my life.

I was in a 40 inch waste and now down to a 32 inch waist with a belt

XXL shirt down to a medium/ large depending on the shirt

 

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The first time I tried food slowly everything did not go well at all. But I just spy trying and pounding through.

 

fruit was the hardest to get use to again and remember chew chew chew .

That was the hardest part to remember to do after.

But I do eat everything now I can say I did finally eat a cheese burger.

My parents don't know I did this and was there or supper and I'd not have a lot of choice that night. Took awhile to eat but I did get it down with a struggle.

 

 

 

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Amytug, I have noticed that too.. there is on Dr. I have researched on here where it seems like all of his patients lose faster than others. Plus I dont see a lot of weightloss checkins from Dr. Garcia's patients, you know like 6months later, now I am going with him, because I have researched and researched, watched youtube and spoken with Alma and the whole nine. I just want to know, what a few patients progress is down the line.

What day is your surgery?

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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